Hi Holger, On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 01:22:05PM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote: > feel free to reply in public (incl. quoting me). or reply in private. :) > (well, or don't reply though that would make me a bit sad. :)
I think your question is relevant to others. > On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 11:27:36AM +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote: > > I now change focus away from systemd units towards the essential set. > > This is a tricky affair as it risks breaking bootstrap and the > > debian-installer. As such, I intend to send patches for affected > > packages and have started doing so already. There are quite a few more > > patches to come. > > I don't understand, the essential set involves 23 source packages, > why do you expect "quite a few" patches and not a certain amount? > the next paragraph also seems to suggest you're talking about > a "bigger essential set" than what I have in mind. What I actually meant was the set of packages used by debootstrap, but I wrote essential. In essence, this is "Priority: required". I'm not sure about "Priority: important" yet. debootstrap seems to reliably configure all required packages before unpacking important packages and that may be sufficient to be safe. Rule of thumb: If your package is in the "Priority: required" set and has an aliased file, do expect me to send a patch. > > Within three months we need to reach the point where > > essential is fully converted with the exception of those packages that > > cannot be converted without breakage. At that point, I'll coordinate a > > synchronized NMU of the remaining packages. Affected maintainers have > > received a mail while ago. > > a mail or a bug? is there a user tag? A d-devel thread Cced to all relevant maintainers. https://lists.debian.org/20230912181509.ga2588...@subdivi.de We're talking about: * base-files * bash * coreutils maybe * dash * libc6 * util-linux > many thanks for all your work on this! You are welcome. Helmut
